
       **** MARS installation instruction ****


If you download the MARS software, you should check to see that the
complete file was downloaded:

	mars.tar        1....bytes



The only two operation that you have to do to install the MARS software
are:

	* uncompress the file mars.tar in the desired directory;

	* add in the environment variable CLASSPATH the directory Class 
	(e.g. if the directory where the installation file is uncompressed is 
	/user/ in the CLASSPATH variable you have to add /user/mars/Class).



The MARS software directories will have the following structure.



	mars

   ______|_____

   |          |

Class      Example



In the Class directory are included the Java-To-Go agent system code
modified (weakly) to be used with MARS coordination system, and the code
of the MARS system.

In the directory Example there is an example of an application that use agents and servers Java-To-Go together
with the  coordination power of MARS. The application operates in context of the Information Retrivial.


        **** Running the Example ****


The application consists in a Searcher agents  that search for HTML pages including a specified keyword.
You can get more information about this application downloading the
paper "Reactive Tuple Spaces for Mobile Agent Coordination" available 
at: "http://sirio.dsi.unimo.it/MOON/papers/index.html#Paper3" and reading
the section "The application testbed".

